Rashida Jones - Personal Life

Personal Life

In the 1990s, Jones dated her Celeste and Jesse Forever cowriter Will McCormack for three weeks. She had a 3½ year relationship with actor Tobey Maguire, ending in 2000. Jones became engaged to the Grammy Award-winning music producer Mark Ronson in February 2003. He proposed on her 27th birthday, using a custom-made crossword puzzle spelling out "Will you marry me?" Their relationship ended approximately one year later. Jones then dated actor John Krasinski prior to becoming his co-star on The Office (their characters were also dating on the show). She also dated speechwriter Jon Favreau while he was the Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama.

Though raised Jewish, Jones, like her mother, began practicing Hinduism in her early teens after the two visited an Ashram in India. Today, however, she practices Judaism, and told a reporter, "In this day and age, you can choose how you practice and what is your relationship with God. I feel pretty strongly about my connection, definitely through the Jewish traditions and the things that I learned dating the guy that I dated. My boyfriends tend to be Jewish and also be practicing ... I don't see it as a necessity, but there's something about it that I connect with for whatever reason." On her multifaceted identity, she remarked "I have gone through periods where I only feel black or Jewish. Now I have a good balance".